Protection for servo motors using Home Work Board-Breadboard
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Hi,.
I damaged two servo motors easily,
using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
When I connected the 6 volts power
supply they burned.
My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
for less than one second
(I know,I know it was my mistake)
The Basic Stamp Home Work Board is working.
(no problem)
The Board of educations have a mechanical protection
but I don't want to buy a board of education.
How can I protect the servo motors for a
reversed polarity?
Diode? or something like that.
Thanks in advance: Joe
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I damaged two servo motors easily,
using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
When I connected the 6 volts power
supply they burned.
My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
for less than one second
(I know,I know it was my mistake)
The Basic Stamp Home Work Board is working.
(no problem)
The Board of educations have a mechanical protection
but I don't want to buy a board of education.
How can I protect the servo motors for a
reversed polarity?
Diode? or something like that.
Thanks in advance: Joe
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side of the supply (keep in mind you'll lose about 0.7v through the
diode) -- but I wouldn't bother. I've reverse connected servos more
than once and never killed them. Are you sure it wasn't something else?
-- Jon Williams
-- Applications Engineer, Parallax
-- Dallas Office
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Board-Breadboard
Hi,.
I damaged two servo motors easily,
using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
When I connected the 6 volts power
supply they burned.
My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
for less than one second
(I know,I know it was my mistake)
The Basic Stamp Home Work Board is working.
(no problem)
The Board of educations have a mechanical protection
but I don't want to buy a board of education.
How can I protect the servo motors for a
reversed polarity?
Diode? or something like that.
Thanks in advance: Joe
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> I damaged two servo motors easily,
> using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
>
> When I connected the 6 volts power
> supply they burned.
> My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
> for less than one second
> (I know,I know it was my mistake)
With the BOE you don't have this problem because you connect the servos to
the servo port, making it almost impossible to make a bad connection (I said
almost because you can still reverse connect the servo, but this won't
destroy it).
With the HomeWork Board you have to make your own wiring, leaving the door
open to reverse polarity and other wiring mistakes.
The circuit inside the servos is using polarized capacitors.
You cannot provide effective external protection to avoid reversed polarity
connection to the servo.
The diode should be added inside the servo case to avoid destroying the
capacitors.
As you noticed, capacitors get destroyed almost instantly when reversing
polarity.
The only solution is double and triple checking your wiring before applying
power to the board.
Saludos,
Aristides Alvarez
International Education Program Developer
aalvarez@p...
Parallax, Inc. www.parallax.com
USA
from reverse voltage -- and it would also drop
the voltage going to the Servo by 0.6 Volts.
This could be useful, depending on if you need
it or not.
--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, Joe Terk <joeterk@y...> wrote:
> Hi,.
>
> I damaged two servo motors easily,
> using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
>
> When I connected the 6 volts power
> supply they burned.
> My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
> for less than one second
> (I know,I know it was my mistake)
>
> The Basic Stamp Home Work Board is working.
> (no problem)
>
> The Board of educations have a mechanical protection
> but I don't want to buy a board of education.
>
> How can I protect the servo motors for a
> reversed polarity?
>
> Diode? or something like that.
>
> Thanks in advance: Joe
>
> __________________________________
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I tried but the servo worked erratic.
( a diode has resistence and the HomeWork
Stamps have a 220 extra resistor, I don't
know if the problem is there)
Thanks
--- Allan Lane <allan.lane@h...> wrote:
> Why yes, a diode in the +5 line would protect
> from reverse voltage -- and it would also drop
> the voltage going to the Servo by 0.6 Volts.
> This could be useful, depending on if you need
> it or not.
>
> --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, Joe Terk
> <joeterk@y...> wrote:
> > Hi,.
> >
> > I damaged two servo motors easily,
> > using the Home Work Board-Breadboard.
> >
> > When I connected the 6 volts power
> > supply they burned.
> > My mistake was that I reversed the polarity
> > for less than one second
> > (I know,I know it was my mistake)
> >
> > The Basic Stamp Home Work Board is working.
> > (no problem)
> >
> > The Board of educations have a mechanical
> protection
> > but I don't want to buy a board of education.
> >
> > How can I protect the servo motors for a
> > reversed polarity?
> >
> > Diode? or something like that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance: Joe
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less
> spam
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